CHITS showcased in PhilHealth and East West Center’s Seminar on Population
June 24, 2010 8:01 am | by Noel Banez, RN | Posted in News
UPM-NThC’s CHITS featured to local and foreign participants.
Participants from USA, Thailand, China, India, and the Philippines pose with their teams after they played an exercise as an introduction to CHITS.
Pasig City, Philippines –- The Community Health Information Tracking System (CHITS) was showcased by the University of the Philippines Manila – National Telehealth Center (UPM-NThC) at the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth) and the Hawaii-based East West Center’s 41st Summer Seminar on Population Workshop conducted last June 24, 2010 at the PhilHealth Training Room at the CityState Center.
The UPM-NThC team led by Dr. Alvin B. Marcelo discussed NThC’s eHealth initiatives in the realm of eLearning for health, eMedicine (telemedicine), and eRecords. He also introduced Free/Open Source Software (FOSS) and the principles behind it to the participants from USA, China, Thailand, India, and the Philippines. With him was Mr. Noel Bañez, Coordinator for Primary Health Informatics and CHITS who helped facilitate the exercises on data quality. Dr. Marcelo gave an overview on the state of the national health information system as a prelude on his discussion of CHITS. Shortly after, a demonstration of CHITS was presented by Mr. Bañez which highlighted the 6 Basic Steps and the participants explored UPM-NThC’s homegrown electronic health record system.
Ms. Gilda Salvacion A. Diaz, senior manager of PhilHealth’s International and Local Cooperation Department, and Mr. Oscar Banias of the PhilHealth Training Institute were there to supervise the 5-day workshop on “Health Care Financing Analysis and Insurance Systems.”
The East West Center’s 41st Summer Seminar on Population, held annually since 1970, serves as a forum for individuals and institutions concerned with population- and health-related issues. The workshop aims to survey the basic issues surrounding health-care systems in the Asia-Pacific region and provide professional training in health economics, health-care financing and health policy.
